I'm the parent of a 20-year-old -- will I be telling my grandson someday not to worry, that the war should be over before he hits draft age?

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In the middle of the prior decade, NBA players and owners, amid concern over the flight of high schoolers directly into the pros, changed its eligibility requirements so that a player had to be 19 years of age in the calendar year of the draft and a year removed from high school graduation.

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Each year another 6, 000-odd haredi yeshiva (Talmudic seminary) students reach the age of 18 and join the ranks of the draft-dodgers.

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That figure already represents 13% of the Jewish male age group (Arab-Israelis are also exempt from the draft) and is set to grow fast: among Jewish schoolchildren, 26% of first-graders are haredi.

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Boys will graduate from high school not at 17, as now, but at the conscription age of 18, and will not have time to try to gain acceptance to colleges that could grant draft exemptions.

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